Button-hole piece for boots or shoes



(No Model.)

J.REE0E, BUTTON-HOLE PIECE FOR BOOTS 0R SHOES.

Patented Apr. 2, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

JOHN REEOE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUTTON -HOLE PIECE FOR BOOTS OR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,485, dated April 2, 1889. Application filed September 25, 1888. Serial No. 286,326. (No model.)

To all whont it may concern:

. Beit known that 1, JOHN REEOE, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Button- I-Iole Pieces for Boots or Shoes, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a button-hole piece in which thestay-cord and thrum ends are secured to the material in a novel manner.

In accordance with my invention I employ two eye-pointed needles, both of which enter and emerge from the underside of the material, one at eaclr side and parallel to the stay-cord extended between the inner ends of adjacent button-holes, the loops of thread left by both needlesbeing entered byathird thread, the latter interlocked with the loops of needle-thread crossing the stay-cord and thrum ends and binding them to the under side of the button-hole piece.

The invention herein described is an improvement on that described in United States Patent No. 380,731, dated April 10, 1888.

The stitch made does not show at the outer face of the button-hole piece.

Figure 1 shows the under side of aportion of a button-hole piece enlarg d, such as commonly used in boots or shoes, the said figure showing two button-holes, the stay-cord, thrum ends, and stitches binding them to the material. Fig. 2 is a diagram'showing the material bent for the entrance of the two needles, the ulatter having retired and left their loops, which have been entered by the under thread, the stay-cord being omitted from Fig. 2. Fig. 3 shows the stitch drawn taut.

Referring to the drawings, the material or button-hole piece Ct has its button-holes b b overstitched at 2 in the usual manner, the said stitching at the under side of the material covering the usual stay-cord, c, which is extended about and from one to the other button-hole at their inner ends. In Fig. 1 the usual shuttle or under thread used in stitching thrum ends, and the stay-cord to the under side of the button-hole piece by a blindstitch or a stitch which will not show at the face of the button-hole piece, I bend the material in a line parallel to the length of the button-hole, and while so bent insert the points of two eye-pointed needles into and cause them to emerge from the material at the same side and leave their threads (I e in loop form parallel to and at opposite sides of the stay-cord c, and the said loops having been formed as stated they are, as shown in Fig. 3, entered by a second thread, f, and the two loops of thread (Z 6 are then drawn up into the material, as in Figs. 2 and 1, leaving only the thread f to cross the stay-cord and thrum .ends. The threads (I 6 being subjected to greater tension than the thread f the latter is drawn into the work by the needle-threads d e, leaving the stitch as shown in Fig. 1; but if the tension on the thread f were increased sufficiently the crossing-points of the threads might be made to show at the under side of the work rather than to be c011- ce aled in the work, as in Figs. 1 and 3.

By using two needles and an under-thread carrier the work of securing the stay-cord may be more rapidly done, and neither the needles nor work have to be moved laterally as in the application referred to.

A button-hole piece may be stitched in accordance with myinven tion by a machine de scribed in my application, Serial No. 289,7 58, filed November 1, 1888, by merely suspending the lateral vibration of the needle-bar and providing the needle-bar with twoeyepointed thread-carrying needles, and providing each needle with a thread. I do not, however, desire to confine my invention to producing the button-hole piece described on the particular machine referred to.

I claim A button-hole piece having. its stay-cord and thrum ends confined to the under side of the material by a thread interlocked with two other threads inserted in and showing only opposite sides of and parallel to the stay-cord, where it extends from one to the next button-hole, substantially as described.

I11 testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two snb- IO 5 scribing witnesses. I

4 JOHN REECE.

Witnesses:

JAs. H. CHURCHILL, BERNIcE J. NOYES.

v at the under side of the button-hole piece at I 

